The Daily Bruin

Show your George Fox spirit by helping out our business capstone team, Bruin Pride. We are hosting a T-shirt design contest to find the best of the best GFU designs.

Show your support by designing, drawing and coloring a T-shirt that expresses your Bruin Pride. Then, on Thursday, Oct. 18, come by our table in the Bruin Den between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to vote on your favorite design.

Mail your designs and contact info to campus Box #4238 by Wednesday, Oct. 17, for a chance to win one of three prizes.

For more info, visit our Facebook page.

Good luck!

Follow the ARC Facebook page at facebook.com/GFU.ARC by Oct. 15 and you will be entered to win one of three three $15 Amazon.com gift cards. If you’re already following us, you’ll be included in the drawing.

The ARC Facebook page includes tips on learning, updates on technology for education, and other general suggestions for success as a student at Fox. If you have suggestions or requests for content, please send them my way.

The campus community is invited to the next installment of the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Oct. 15, in Hoover 105.

The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features a showing of the film Welcome to Shelbyville, which tells the story of racial interaction between whites, African Americans, Hispanics and Somalian Muslims in the small town of Shelbyville, Tenn.

The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

The Newberg campus will be closed Friday, Oct. 12, for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, the BlueZone Store, Mail Services, and the library will be closed.

All are invited to “Seminary Fair Plus” on the Newberg campus on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the atrium of the Hoover Academic Building. The event is designed for those interested in pursuing religious or professional higher education.

The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Representatives from a variety of seminaries as well as George Fox graduate programs will be available to connect with prospective students who desire to be equipped for ministry or professional education.

For more information or a list of seminaries attending, contact the career services office at 503-554-2330.

A team of four students (Mary Owen, Kyle Webster, Bethany Widdicombe,and Nick Largusa) are raising funds for and participating in the “Race to 2025” held this weekend in Montana. To help raise funds for the trip, Nick will be making fresh donuts in the Bruin Den today (Thursday) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The donuts are free with donation.

More than 200 million people from 2,200 different language groups still do not have God’s Word in their language. “Race To 2025” is an adventure race fundraiser held by Wycliffe Bible Translators that has the goals of creating awareness for the need in Bible translating, raising up a new generation of Bible translating missionaries, and raising funds for the Bible translating currently happening in Cameroon, Africa.

Any and all donations raised on campus will go straight to the Wycliffe Cameroon project. Contact Nick (nlargusa@gmail.com) if you have questions.

Blessings

The BlueZone Store will be closed for mid-semester break, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12-13.

All are welcome to join us for a Spanish chapel at 10:40 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in Bauman Auditorium. Bob Gilmore, professor emeritus, will be our guest, sharing his music and poetry.

Come hear about and discuss issues of injustice in our world and ways to fight these injustices! IJM meets tonight from 8:30-9:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 10 in the Cultural House. IJM club focuses on advocacy and awareness about sex-trafficking.

And bring a mug — there will be tea and hot chocolate!

For more information, please contact Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.

Love books? Have a post-Halloween wish to dress up as your favorite literary character?

Join us at Sigma Tau Delta’s first-ever Book Ball for a night of literary food, games, costumes, and prizes in the Brewin’ Grounds (formerly the Foxhole). Test your knowledge in literary Jeopardy, eat licorice wands, and enter in our “May the odds be ever in your favor” raffle!

This event will take place from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9.

For more information, please contact Renata Sweeney at rsweeney09@georgefox.edu.

Have you started to think about winter break? How about a week of adventure and serving others? This year there are three Winter Serve opportunities: Portland, Seattle and Twin Rocks.

Winter serve applications now available online. Go to the ASC web page and look under “Get Involved.”

Applying is easy: Download the application. Fill it out. Save it as “YourName.docx” and e-mail it to Kaylena Charpertier at kcharpentier10@georgefox.edu. Then click the “Reference Form” link and send that link to one professor and one student to fill out on your behalf. Applications are due by Friday, Oct. 19!

Still have a question? Feel free to e-mail Kaylena or Kyle Webster (kwebster12@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Through a digitization project of the George Fox University/Northwest Yearly Meeting archives, The Crescent, George Fox University’s student newspaper, is now available online from 1891 to 1931. Papers can be accessed at this link.

Digitization efforts are ongoing and will result in additional issues being made available online. For further information, contact Zoie Clark, archivist, at ext. 2415, or Rob Bohall, reference librarian, at ext. 2416. The GFU/NWYM Archives is located in the Murdock Learning Resource Center.

Josh White, pastor of Door Of Hope Church in Southeast Portland, is speaking in chapel in Bauman Auditorium this morning (Wednesday) at 10:40 a.m., with music from his band, The Followers. See you there!

Just a reminder to come by the Spiritual Life House anytime today through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to check out our porch sale! All proceeds go to support Summer Serve 2013!

Questions? Contact Kendra Phillips at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in going on a Summer Serve trip? Come to the information night to find out more about upcoming trips! The meeting will be held in Hoover 105 at 9 p.m. tonight (Wednesday).

Be sure to stop by; there are so many amazing opportunities planned! Questions? Write spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Tilikum Center for Retreats & Outdoor Ministries, a ministry of Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, is hosting its annual Potlatch celebration on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in the university’s Klages Dining Room. The public is welcome; please register by Monday, Oct. 15.

The event celebrates past donors and program supporters and presents the camp’s new campaign, “Lasting Impressions, Phase 1”. To R.S.V.P., call 503-538-2763, ext. 107, or e-mail registrar@camptilikum.org.

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m. – Women’s soccer vs. Pacific (Austin Sports Complex)
Friday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Pacific (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. – Cross country in George Fox Invitational (Fernhill Park, Portland, Ore.)
Saturday, Oct. 13, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s soccer vs. Willamette (Austin Sports Complex)
Sunday, Oct. 14, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s soccer vs. Linfield (Austin Sports Complex)

For more information, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit gfubruins.com.

Take a quick look at what’s coming up in Career Services! Contact us at ext. 2330 or at careers@georgefox.edu, or stop by Career Services on the first floor of the Stevens Center (and in the Bruin Den on Fridays) if you have questions. Please join us! Upcoming events include:

• Grad School Admissions Workshop: Monday, Oct. 22
• Seminary Fair-Plus: Tuesday, Oct. 23
• After Hours Networking for the Emerging Professional: Friday, Oct. 26
• Professional Preview Day: Friday, Nov. 16

If you are considering changing your major and would like some assistance with that, please come to Career Services on Stevens First Floor, call x. 2330 or email us at www.careers.georgefox.edu.  We are equipped to help you sort this out so you can learn the best major fit for you as you go forward.

Come by the Spiritual Life House anytime today through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to check out our porch sale! All proceeds go to support Summer Serve 2013!

Questions? Contact Kendra Phillips at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.